After iMPdraw (download link), here is a new version of the Claudia Converter utility by Eliot.
it can load .BMP and .SCR created with the ConvIMG CPC utility, to show and modify them with the zoom tool. It manages fullscreen and CPC+ palette.
In december 2014, a preview of iMPdraw by AST was out. iMPdraw version 1 is now called iMPdraw lite, used for example for screens released at the Reset #20 meeting (usable on CPC and CPC+).
A new version (iMPdraw v2) is in the work since January 2015 by AST and ToTO.
Other painting program : GOS (CPC+ only) and Claudia (CPC and CPC+).
SAMdisk v3.8.8 by Simon Owen is out since the 8th July.
The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.
Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.
TFM, author of FutureOS (an Amstrad CPC operating system) has put CP/M plus with utilities on 10 ROMs at the moment. Click on source link below for download.
The Elan Enterprise is a new computer which can use Symbos. See the youtube video about this subject made during the Nijmegen MSX fair 2015.
You can test a preview of a new paint program for Amstrad CPC old and plus : iMPdraw by Ast/iMP4CT.
SAMdisk v3.8 by Simon Owen is out since the 9th March 2014.
The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.
Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.
Version 3.8, last updated 9th March 2014 - Added support for SuperCard Pro .scp flux disk images (MFM+FM) - Added --pll option to control PLL method with flux image scanning - Fixed --head giving ambiguous option error due to typo - Fixed KBI-19 format slightly overhanging track wrap - Improved EOT handling of flux images containing just one revolution - Changed --slow-step to --old-drive to better match usage
HxC Floppy Drive Emulator v2.0.18.4 is available on Github.
It's an utility to create images to be used by the SDCard HxC Floppy Emulator, to replace the good old 3 inch disks drives of our Amstrad CPC.
The 3rd version of the HxC Floppy Emulator Manager is available.
It's a complete rewrite of the original software.
It features a new user interface (thanks Ced !), better support of the HxC Floppy Emulator device (detection, release..) and some critical bug-fixes.
Finally, it now allows proper exit to BASIC (Amstrad CPC's default shell).
The software remains available as a ROM.
A new Amstrad CPC firmware is available, written by Syx and TotO.
This Firmware was designed to get a better support of RAM and ROM expansions. Looking the future, not the past.
It don't work with BASIC 1.0 and no more support Tape by default. (need a ROM to manage it, that allow to improve it as new storages too).
So, the actual target is all CPC with BASIC 1.1 and floppy or HxC drives.
New features are :
Beware, you must use the 16 Ko files with an emulator. 32 Ko ROMs are to be used with a real Amstrad CPC.
The last version of the CPCDiskXP utility is available on CPCMania.
SAMdisk v3.7 by Simon Owen is out since the 24th June 2013.
The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.
Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.
Version 3.7 (2013-06-24)
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- Added support for KryoFlux and DiscFerret stream images (MFM+FM)
- Added preliminary support for D4M (FD-4000) disk images
- Added hex output with --hex or -x, with limited hex using --hex-ish
- Added --no-gap4b to ignore gap data after the final sector
- Added --abs-offsets to show absolute rather than relative sector offsets
- Fixed 'extra byte' EDSK extension being used unnecessarily on CRC errors
- Fixed crash during CPC weak sector sniffing due to no-data 4th sector
- Fixed regular image reading reporting transient disk errors
- Improved support for ED images, including 2.88M raw images
- Improved gap reading support for IPF images
- Changed raw track parsing to ignore headers with ID CRC errors
- Changed raw image writing to use only first cyl to determine format
- Relaxed D2M sniffing by removing system partition type (0xff) check
- Reduced gap sync requirement to remove more unwanted gaps
SAMdisk v3.5 by Simon Owen is out.
The utility supports transfers between floppy disks and disk images, and is designed to work with almost any soft-sectored disk format compatible with the PC floppy controller, including some copy-protected formats.
Low-level floppy device access requires the fdrawcmd.sys driver to be installed.
Version 3.5 (2013-01-07) ------------------------ - Fixed interleave and skew values for Pro-Dos .cpm images - Alignment tweaks to some output formatting - Restored code signing to help download validation
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